41 Quotes by Dave Hickey

I'm retiring because my time is up.

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does."

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't,